No plans to build any Traveller sites in Louth despite requests

Louth County Council’s Traveller Accommodation Strategy for 2013-2018 cited no plans to build group accommodation schemes for Travellers, despite requests for these kinds of accommodations.

The council’s plan, adopted in March 2014, demonstrates a clear attempt to house Travellers in standard social housing, even after 14 families requested group housing and one requested a halting site.

Louth’s Traveller accommodation scheme has been thrown into sharp focus after 23 families were removed from a halting site by the council, citing health and safety concerns in the wake of the Carrickmines fire last year.